Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-10-15
STATE NEWS

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There is a Latin class in the Kirwin
public schools.
Artois is a new town in the north part
Of Meade county.
Roscoe, in Graham county expects OF
have a creamery.
Garden City recently sold So. 900 in
school bonds for SO.
The new school house at wellington
will be heated by steam.
Kinsley expects the D. NJ. & A. road
/ by the 1st of December.
Garden City has one hundred and
twenty-seven carpenters.
1t is announced thas Abilene viii erect
a $4,000 city building.
Scott City has now a fire engine and a
telephone system.
Blue Rapids has a wooden mill. It
will not run during the winter.
In KirWin the chain gang consists Of
one man and the city marshall.
The Mitchell county fair is to be held
October u, - and IA, at Beloit.
The Hoxie Democrat states that jack
rabbit hunts are all the rage now.
Atchinson GLOBE: A man 20 years old
is driving an AtchinsOn street car.
West Plains has an artesian well com
psny with a capital stock OF $4,000.
The town of New Lebanon, on the
Rock Island, is beginning to build up.
Marshall county has three tickets in
the feld-rePublicaD, democratic and Ia
Dor.
The Smith Center Bulletin says there
is lack Of business buildings in that
city.
The prohibitioDists OF Usage county
have placed a full county ticket in the
field.
The union labor party OF sedgwick
county have nominated a full county
ticket.
The corner stone of a new public
school building was laid IN Taloga, re-
Gently.
Miss Minnie Very is prohibition can
didate for register Of deeds of Saline
county.
Another arbesian well has been bored
successfully near Spring Lake, Meade
county.
Jewell Bevieso: A heavy rainfall Wis
tied this section Of the state, Sunday OF
last week.
Sterling Bulletin: A new electric
light company is being organized in
this city.
Owing to the continued rain, the
franklin county fair was postponed IN
til next year.
Osborne Nelgs: The iewelry store Of
G. ". Chittenden was bUrglarized to the
amount Of $500.
The Union Labor party of Crawford
county, announces that it viii nominate
a full county ticket.
The collapsed Wichita opera house is
being rebuilt and will be completed by
the end Of the year.
It is proposed to extend the Wichita
rapid transit railway to Newton. The
distance is % miles.
The Merchants National Bank, with
100000 paid up capital has been Or
ganized at FL Dorado.
It is reported that four foot vein of
coal has been struck at Beaumont, forty
miles east Of Wichita.
the Independence postofice pays out
almost $4,000 more than is taken in
from regular business.
Oberiin Eye: Nearly $4,000 is al
ready subscribed to the new Decatur
county fair association.
Clark county will build a $50, 600
court house at Ashland. Bonds for that
purpose have been voted.
Bslleville Telescope: The first grand
jury ever drawn in Republic county was
drawn Friday Of last week.
Henry Williams, a colored boy, was
sentenced to the reform school at Atchi-
son for committing forgery.
The union labor party of Sumner
: county had 6 parade aud barbecue one
day Inst week at wellington.
Tracklyaing on the Kansas City
Wyandotts and Northwestern railway
has been completed to Valley Falls.
A Leavenworth policeman has been
fined for kissing a woman. He has ap-
Pesled the case to the district court.
Valley Falls Nea0 Era: Diptheria is
raging at McLOuth, several deaths
among children having occurred lately.
Arkansas City Republican TraveLer:
Arkansas City has four large, well ven
/ tilated school houses, costing $4,000.
Abilene Gazette: Wslnuts are plentt-
/ ful in this neck o'WOOds this year. There
are at least 500 bushels on Blake's farm.
A couple Of young men at Hutchin-
son stole moving machine recently.
They were arrested and are DOW in jail.
The Equal Suffrage association hold
meetings In Hiawathas October a and
%. Susan B. Anthony viii be present.
Atchinson Globe: A South Fourth
/ young lady has won enough at poker,
recently, to buy her new party dress.
The hOmasteaders and claim-holders
In different parts Of Wichita county have
organized lyceums which meet regular
/ y.
The Courier office, at Chapman, was en-
tered one night, recently, and the mate
rial Of the Office scattered over the floor
by unknown parties.